Beginning in early November, companies can register for year-end tax printing services and then upload W-2 data via a secure Web site in January 2006. Customers can choose between W-2 delivery back to their corporate location or directly to employees. Either way, copies of the W-2 forms are forwarded to the employer on CD, and Sage Compliance Services electronically files information directly to the Social Security Administration.

Through Sage Compliance Services, Sage Software also offers a year-end tax system for larger companies that want to automate the wage reporting process, but still handle W-2s internally. The licensed system is installed at a customer's site and enables them to archive, print, edit, issue and reissue tax forms such as W-2, W-3, W-3c, and 941cs, as well as a variety of 1099 forms.

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